Teacher Responsibilities
Students' Rights and Special Ed. Law
Vocabulary
IEP and 504
Special Educator Responsibilities
100
The act of protecting all personally identifiable data, information, and records collected, used, or kept by the school district about a student. The requirements also apply to discussions about a student and the student’s record.
What is Confidentiality
100
This law explains that every student has this education right. (Hint: FAPE)
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
100
This is specially designed instruction that cannot be provided within the school’s standard instructional conditions or provided through the school’s educational support system, to meet the unique needs of an eligible child with a disability.
What is Special Education?
100
A written statement for a child with a disability that is developed, reviewed, and revised annually
What is an Individualized Education Plan?
100
parental rights, meeting minutes, evaluation plan and report, achievement results, collection of report cards, standardized tests, medical updates, parent questionnaire, and teachers feedback.
What are documents needed for an evaluation report meeting.
200
This is the person who can answer question you have about student with special needs.
What is the Learning Specialist?
200
This is the age that parental rights are transferred to the student
What is 18?
200
A group of individuals including the parent that is responsible for developing an evaluation plan and reviewing the results to determine if a child is or continues to be eligible for special education and related services.
What is Evaluation Planning Team?
200
This law states: “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability shall solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
What is Section 504
200
Information that must be communicated to all teachers involved with an identified student.
What are the Present Levels of Performance and accommodations and modifications?
300
Talking with, calling or emailing special education/case managers with concerns or updates is an example of this.
What is communication
300
A website in Vermont that has all of the answers to special education law.
What is the Vermont Department of Education?
300
A student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate. They should have access to the general education curriculum, extracurricular activities, or any other program that non-disabled peers would be able to access
What is Least Restrictive Environment
300
To have an IEP a student must have this process completed first.
What is a formal evaluation?
300
These are the locations that students Special Education files are kept.
Where are the case managers fire proof file cabinet, the LEA's office and the Guidance office.
400
The document that must be followed in accordance to Special Education Law
What is an IEP?
400
This is an appeal process for parents to resolve issues with school districts about their child's IEP.
What is Due Process?
400
Transportation and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services as are required to assist a child who requires special education services to benefit from his or her special education.
What are related services?
400
Age appropriate and measurable post secondary goals are a part of this section of the IEP.
What is transition?
400
Administrators, special education directors, paraprofessionals, teachers, parents, school social workers/psychologists, guidance counselors, anyone involved with the identified student in anyway.
Who are the people a learning specialist must communicate with regularly.
500
This page in the IEP identifies information about the student, his/her disability, and strengths and needs.
What is Present Levels of Performance
500
A child shall be determined eligible for special education services only if these three criteria are met.
What are they have an identifiable disability, they meet the criteria for adverse affect and they have a need for specialized services?
500
This law, "retains the basic rights and protections for children with disabilities. In 1997, President Clinton signed amendments to the Act that focus on improving the education of children with disabilities."
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975.
500
This information is contained both on an IEP and a 504 plan.
What are the type of disability, accommodations and modifications?
500
They Modify materials, reinforce learning, reteach when necessary, provide skill programs for organization and functional progress, provide specialized instruction in core academic areas, teach self-advocacy, provide varied instruction, make sure laws are followed and paperwork is complete, keep in touch with parents and much more!
What is the best learning specialist ever!
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